NAGPUR, India, (Reuters) – England laboured to a thrilling six-wicket victory completed with eight balls to spare over the Netherlands in a Group B match to avert what would have been the first upset of the World Cup yesterday.
The Netherlands batsmen, especially the South Africa-born Ryan ten Doeschate (119), thrived on England’s shoddy bowling and sloppy fielding to power the team to 292-6, a target that seemed quite a test for their opponents’ tweaked batting order.
At least England could console themselves with the third highest successful run chase at a World Cup after the Dutch posted the best
